On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does not even work, let alone because if it finds the EXE there is no > error as far as CreateProcess cares. On the other had, The child > process returns an exit code such as STATUS_ENTRYPOINT_NOT_FOUND but I > don't see how to get this information from the parent process, return > it to start.exe.so and have start do something like print an error or > display a message box. Can anyone lurking point me to an example of > how to get the child's return value and pass that back to the parent?
A few ideas: * have start.exe examine the import table of the exe and do an explicit check (hard) * have start.exe set an environment variable saying "show graphical error box on dll load failure", and clear that before calling executed apps' WinMain() (easy)
